Alt-rockers The Cure [ tickets ] have added a pair of new shows to their impending late spring/early summer tour, which backs the band's forthcoming 13th studio album.

The new dates consist of a San Jose appearance (May 28) and a second night in New York City (June 21) that will close out the run, which kicks off May 9 in Washington, DC. The additions are the latest tweaks in a tour schedule that endured a last-minute postponement last fall when the band suddenly retreated into the recording studio to continue work on the new album.

"The schedule as it stands only gives us a couple of weeks to finish our new double album before we hit the road again, and we know this just isn't enough time to complete the project to our total satisfaction," the band said in an August statement.

The group's currently untitled next studio album--which would be its first since a self-titled 2004 set--is still waiting for an official release date, but the group has suggested in multiple interviews that it would like to have the disc in stores in April or May to coincide with the start of the upcoming tour. The band appears to be standing firm on the idea of releasing the set as a double album.

"What will probably happen is that a double album will come out like a limited edition, mixed by me. A single-disc version, which I assume will be primarily chosen by the label, might get mixed by someone else in order to have a different thing," bandleader Robert Smith told Billboard last year. "There's a concern Cure fans will feel like they have to get both, but the fact is, I've agreed to sell the double version at a single album price, because I feel that strongly about it. It is almost impossible to get a double album nowadays.

"I naively thought my standing as an artist would push aside all objections," Smith added, "but the world gets ever more commercial as it turns."